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Eric Carle (1929-)
Eric Carle was born in Syracuse, NY, and moved with his parents to Germany in 1935. He graduated from the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. Returning to New ork in 1952, he found a job as a graphic designer in the promotion department of The New York Times and later became the art director of an advertising company. He is the international award-winning author/artist of such beloved children’s classics as The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Lonely Firefly and the illustrator of I.B. Singer’s Why Noah Chose the Dove (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974). Carle won the Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Literature Award (2008), the Japan Picture Book Award for Lifetime Achievement (2000), the David McCord Children’s Literature Citation (1995) and the Nobscot Reading Council of the International Reading Association (1995). In 2002 Carle and his wife Barbara founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, in Amherst, MA, the first museum in the United States devoted to national and international picture book art.
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